Hacker News "Who is hiring?" thread (freelancer), October 2021

by: ReDeiPirati
text: Writers, Bloggers - Business Intelligence, Analytics, DataOps, Database, Data warehouse, SQL | REMOTE (anywhere on the blue planet)<p>Metabase is the easiest way for people to get insights from their data, from tiny startups who get up and running quickly to major corporations with tens of thousands of users.<p>We are looking for writers and bloggers to help us creating high-quality, informative, and engaging content for our community.<p>Interested? Apply here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metabase.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;freelance_technical_writers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.metabase.com&#x2F;jobs&#x2F;freelance_technical_writers&#x2F;</a>

by: gathersight
text: Remote | three months part or full-time contract  | European timezone<p>Gathersight is building a new type of network for knowledge discovery. We&#x27;re hoping to launch a public beta version of the product in Q1 next year and are interested in hearing from experienced freelancers or contractors that can make a significant contribution to our project.<p>The initial team comprises myself and one other person, a machine learning engineer. To date we have concentrated on developing a classification and data capture model, but now we want to broaden the project team and get building. We&#x27;re looking for an experienced, full-stack developer to take a leading role in the creation of the first version. I&#x27;m a non-technical founder so there is plenty of scope to influence technical and product decisions.<p>Ideally, we&#x27;re looking for the following attributes:<p>- plenty of experience and happiness building in React, Typescript, Node, PostgreSQL&#x2F;MongoDB environments<p>- an all rounder, happy to contribute to UI, UX and infrastructure decisions<p>- bring ideas and solutions to improve the product<p>- open-minded&#x2F;interested in establishing a long-term relationship with a new product<p>This will be a full or part-time three month contract, with plenty of potential for future involvement. European timezone is preferable. Thank you!<p>Please email me richard [at] gathersight.com

by: johnxie
text: San Francisco | Technical Content Writer &#x2F; Productivity Tool Enthusiast | Onsite or Remote
Taskade (YC S19) is building the unified workspace for distributed teams. Manage tasks, write notes, and video chat, in one unified tool. We reimagining the future of work, remote collaboration, and team productivity. Our mission is simple, to help teams get work done, faster and smarter. Here is our story: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taskade.com&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taskade.com&#x2F;about</a><p>We are looking for a technical content writer and productivity tool enthusiast to help us create and maintain:<p><pre><code>   * Templates and workflows for https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taskade.com&#x2F;templates
   * Blog content and product updates for https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.taskade.com
   * Tutorials and technical guides for https:&#x2F;&#x2F;help.taskade.com
</code></pre>
Key traits:
   * Passion for productivity tools and remote teamwork
   * Excellent problem-solving abilities
   * Ability to learn and adapt<p>To learn more about who we are, our culture, and whether Taskade is the right place for you, please ping me at john@taskade.com and check us out at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taskade.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.taskade.com</a>

by: rudasn
text: Remote or Nicosia, Cyprus | Server Monitoring &amp; Alerting<p>We are looking for someone experienced with server monitoring &amp; alerting to help us monitor multiple (&gt; 50) on-premise, low resource, bare-metal servers.<p>We are thinking that the Grafana or Elastic stacks are good candidates for our use-case due to them being open-source and providing cloud&#x2F;managed options.<p>*Requirements*<p>- Project documentation, planning document(s), discussions<p>- Setup and configuration of monitoring server(s) (the receiving part, either self-hosted or cloud - most probably cloud). This includes data-sources, dashboards, plugins, alerts, etc.<p>- Setup and configuration of agents &#x2F; collectors (the collecting&#x2F;sending part).<p>- Monitoring performance tuning (so that monitoring has minimal impact on what is being monitored)<p>- Since we are using ansible for server management, being able to manage the server and agent configuration via ansible would be great!<p>Our stack mostly consists of: Debian, Ansible, Docker, Django, Node, Postgres, Nginx.<p>---<p>To learn more about this project drop me a line at &lt;my username&gt;@gmail.com.<p>Thanks!

by: ltran
text: Tappity (YC S20) | Graphic Designer&#x2F;Illustrator | Remote (US Time Zone)<p>Want to inspire tens of thousands of kids around the world every day with beautiful 2D art you create? Tappity is looking for a contract 2D digital designer&#x2F;artist to create themed illustrations for our interactive science lessons.<p>About us: We&#x27;re building the world’s largest interactive and educational video library for kids—starting with science! With engaging lessons that cover everything from platypuses to volcanos to Mars, kids can find every science topic and discover new ones to love—all in one place.<p>Website: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tappityapp.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.tappityapp.com</a><p>If this sounds interesting to you or someone you know, please email us at founders [at] tappityapp.com with a link to your portfolio!

by: kasbah
text: Remote (You&#x27;ll be working with me and I&#x27;m in UTC+1)<p>We are building a search engine for open source hardware. Seeking two software engineers with experience in data engineering, linked data and building crawlers for a 3 month full-time contract (4500 Euro a month). Interest in hardware (electronic engineering, mechanical engineering) and enthusiasm for open source a plus. This work is funded by NLNet and the results will be made available as free and open source software.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;search.openknowhow.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;search.openknowhow.org</a> (proof of concept site built in a few days)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openknowhow.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;openknowhow.org</a><p>Please email your CV to kaspar [at] kitspace.org

by: spkk
text: London | Remote<p>Synth (YC S20) [1] is an open source declarative data generator written 100% in Rust.<p>We are looking for someone with prior experience writing Rust in production for a 1-to-3 months contract to work with us on our core open-source project.<p>- Proven experience writing production Rust code, preferably in a large code base<p>- Knowledge of PostgreSQL at a level sufficient to design and build reliable integration<p>- Strong knowledge of data structures and algorithms<p>- Track record of contribution to open-source projects, preferably on GitHub<p>- Ability to work quickly and rigorously in a fully remote setting<p>If that sounds interesting, we want to talk to you! Shoot me an email at damien [at] getsynth.com!<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;getsynth&#x2F;synth" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;getsynth&#x2F;synth</a>

by: icandothat
text: Remote  | San Diego, CA, USA | LARAVEL 5+, PHP&#x2F;JS&#x2F;Bootstrap&#x2F;JQuery | Updates to stable project
I&#x27;m looking for a developer with actual experience in Laravel to help us with updates to an existing project. 
This project has been around for about 3 years with active customers and it has some really cool features to geek out on.<p>Currently I have a dozen or so small to medium tasks that need doing and my partner and I are swamped.  
put &quot;laravel&quot; in the subject line so I can sort for your response.<p>Teams, companies, coalitions, brokers, groups and other non-individuals need not apply.<p>Please free to e-mail me at info[at] brainpan [dot] com

by: uplift_ltd
text: Boulder, CO | Remote | US Time Zone<p>At Uplift, we’re on a mission to perfect our work life while learning, building, and enjoying our free time. We&#x27;re looking for well rounded software engineers to join our team. Contract or contract-to-hire, open to employment too. Many more details on our website <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uplift.ltd&#x2F;careers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uplift.ltd&#x2F;careers</a><p>1. Mid&#x2F;senior experience in at least 2 of these:<p>* React&#x2F;React Native<p>* Django (python)<p>* GraphQL (Django &amp; React+Apollo)<p>Usually start part time &amp; ramp up.<p>2. Scala Engineer<p>The position involves building backend services in Scala and a GraphQL layer in TypeScript.<p><i>Must</i> have 1-2 years of experience with Scala. Experience with TypeScript is a big plus.<p>This is a 6-month opportunity,could turn into a permanent position.<p>Bonus for all:<p>* Freelance experience: delivered projects, managed budget&#x2F;estimate, worked with non-technical clients (most important)<p>* Heroku or AWS<p>* Laravel&#x2F;MVC framework in PHP, PHPUnit<p>* Thrift<p>* Excellent CSS skills<p>* Native iOS&#x2F;Android<p>* SQL experience<p>* Can think critically, build from rough specs (no designs or detailed specs)<p>One of our core values is continuous learning: within the industry &amp; from each other. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. If you&#x27;re self-sufficient, passionate &amp; a good communicator, apply now!<p>Web designers can check out our site for details.<p>#### To apply:<p>You have at least 20 hours per week available, and are located in a US timezone.<p>Visit <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uplift.ltd&#x2F;careers&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.uplift.ltd&#x2F;careers&#x2F;</a>, select a position, and follow the instructions.

by: pengwing
text: Remote worldwide<p>Seeking graphical designer&#x2F;artist. We are a group of blockchain developers and marketers looking for graphical designers&#x2F;artists to create NFT collections. You should have a unique artstyle that translates well into either high-resolution images (example: Bored Ape Yacht Club) or pixel art (example: CryptoPunks). Your task will be to create graphical assets that can be combined to form a collection of up to 10.000 NFTs.<p>When you contact us please provide a portfolio of your art: nft_artist@mailbox.org

by: aprioni
text: The Design Project | Remote (office available) | Atlanta, GA, USA | Product designer | <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;designproject.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;designproject.io</a><p>The Design Project is a design team that builds products for startups backed by YC and top VCs like Accel, Sequoia, A16Z, Redpoint.<p>More info &amp; Apply: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;angel.co&#x2F;l&#x2F;2vUhjf" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;angel.co&#x2F;l&#x2F;2vUhjf</a><p>And feel free to e-mail me at alessandro [at] designproject.io

by: ma2780
text: US | Remote | Forward<p>Forward is looking for a couple Elixir devs for a 6-month contract beginning October 11 or October 18. More context + details about Forward + the role can be found here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flossy-cat-f0a.notion.site&#x2F;Engineer-c299be52e49a486ea80030f56a38260d" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;flossy-cat-f0a.notion.site&#x2F;Engineer-c299be52e49a486e...</a><p>If this sounds interesting, feel free to send any questions and&#x2F;or your resume to maisie@forward.id

by: atlasunshrugged
text: SEEKING FREELANCERS | Remote<p>Tribe.AI is a network of 100+ freelance data scientists, ml engineers, etc. that come together to work on interesting projects (usually growth stage tech co&#x27;s). We also have a cool and really supportive community of people and are finally back to doing some in person events mainly in NYC and SF but looking to do more across the country! We&#x27;re always looking for folks who have time to do either part time or full time freelancing on client engagements with us.

by: zachlatta
text: Ruby on Rails | Remote in USA<p>I run Hack Club, which is a nonprofit that helps high schoolers start programming clubs at their schools. We open source almost everything we do at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hackclub&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;hackclub&#x2F;</a>. You can read a little about a summer program we ran a couple months ago here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sevendaysvt.com&#x2F;vermont&#x2F;teens-code-while-traveling-across-the-country-with-shelburne-based-hack-club&#x2F;Content?oid=33479099" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.sevendaysvt.com&#x2F;vermont&#x2F;teens-code-while-traveli...</a><p>I&#x27;m trying to find a Rails contractor who has a really good product eye to contribute to Hack Club Bank, which is a financial tool we run to help Hack Clubs and hackathons manage their finances and become nonprofits. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackclub.com&#x2F;bank&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;hackclub.com&#x2F;bank&#x2F;</a> is the marketing page for it and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;hackclub&#x2F;hack-club-bank-is-now-live-for-everyone-including-you-884f7f54836f" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;medium.com&#x2F;hackclub&#x2F;hack-club-bank-is-now-live-for-e...</a> has some more background on the product.<p>In this role, you&#x27;d be shipping features that require a combination of frontend and backend work. Our backend is pretty standard Ruby on Rails and our frontend is normal JavaScript with pages rendered by the backend. We have a small team of Hack Clubbers aged 13-17 that contribute to the product, and you&#x27;d also be serving as a mentor to them to scope out features, break them down into issues, and working with them through code reviews to get their code merged.<p>My hope is to open source Hack Club Bank in the future, so hopefully you&#x27;d be able to contribute to that as well.<p>If you&#x27;re reading this and not currently looking for work, I would really appreciate any suggestions for people to reach out to, or profiles of anyone in the Rails community that you&#x27;re inspired by that I could look into.<p>If you&#x27;re interested in the role or have any suggestions, please email me at zach (at) hackclub.com. If you&#x27;re interested in the role, please include your GitHub or links to any open source projects you&#x27;ve built or contributed to.

by: chengyinliu
text: Remote<p>Slab (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slab.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slab.com</a>) is looking for a freelancer to improve our Electron-based desktop app. Some example projects: adding tab support, improve Google SSO flow.<p>The ideal candidate would have experience working on a production Electron application before.<p>If you are interested, please email at chengyin@slab.com.

by: vijayselvaraj
text: Tech Lead &#x2F; CTO | Remote | San Francisco, CA, USA | ~20 hours&#x2F;wk or less<p>CalmRx: Digital Pharmacy for Mental Health<p>A company re-designing the Pharmacy experience for Mental Health patients is looking for a Tech Lead that can ideally be a CTO in the future, but who will be building their client app in the meantime.<p>Tech: AWS, Python, iOS, Swift, React.js<p>contact: vijay [at] calmrx [dot] com

by: boltzmannbrain
text: (remote)<p>Looking for website dev and animation, to make something similar to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aqlab.io" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.aqlab.io</a><p>Contact hello@simulation.science with subject &#x27;HN website dev&#x27;, and please provide examples of similar work you&#x27;ve done.

by: hl_talented
text: Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm | Remote &amp; onsite<p>Dozens of projects open currently with varying tech stacks, see the project list at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;talented.fi&#x2F;en&#x2F;projects&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;talented.fi&#x2F;en&#x2F;projects&#x2F;</a>

by: mm_talented
text: US (GMT -4) | Remote<p>Looking for experienced full stack developers for our client projects e.g. in the social networking industry.<p>Tech: JavaScript &#x2F; TypeScript, Node.js, React, GraphQL<p>Duration: at least 6 months &#x2F; flexible<p>Contact: hello@talented.fi